Talk:Legionellosis/Archive 1

Moved in presumed public domain resource text from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/legionellosis_g.htm to create this article.

I was about to come here to post that much of the article came from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/legionellosis_g.htm, but here I see that the author has said as much. Is this material actually public domain? If so, I'll revert my deletions. -- Zoe

I think it is public domain. See here, which I think applies to the source to this article. Tokerboy

generally all U.S. federal govt publications are in the public domain (it ought to be--the public paid for it!), though that's not the case for the *state* governments (not in the public domain, though the public did still pay for it), and governments sometimes arrange with private companies to reuse their info online. At a federal govt site, in absence of a copyright statement, I would assume it to be in the public domain. (at e.g. the u.s. dept of state site, everything w/o an explicit copyright statement is in the public domain). Koyaanis Qatsi

Thanks, Toker. That's what I was looking for. I'll revert the article. -- Zoe

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Legionellosis is the right name and this includes two forms:

• Legionnaires' disease
• And Pontiac Fever

See : http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/legionellosis_g.htm